Re: Lowering spam threshold [avoid discarding at high cost]

2011-07-08 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote: John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Lars Jørgensen wrote: $sa_tag2_level_deflt = 5.2; # add 'spam detected' headers at that level $sa_kill_level_deflt = 6.2; # triggers spam evasive actions (e.g. blocks mail) That seems a little aggressiv

Re: Lowering spam threshold [avoid discarding at high cost]

2011-07-08 Thread Andrzej Adam Filip
John Hardin wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Lars Jørgensen wrote: > $sa_tag2_level_deflt = 5.2; # add 'spam detected' headers at that level $sa_kill_level_deflt = 6.2; # triggers spam evasive actions (e.g. blocks mail) >> >>> That seems a little aggressive to me. Personally I'd pref

RE: Lowering spam threshold

2011-07-08 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Lars Jørgensen wrote: $sa_tag2_level_deflt = 5.2; # add 'spam detected' headers at that level $sa_kill_level_deflt = 6.2; # triggers spam evasive actions (e.g. blocks mail) That seems a little aggressive to me. Personally I'd prefer a larger margin of error for FPs, and

RE: Lowering spam threshold

2011-07-08 Thread Lars Jørgensen
> > $sa_tag2_level_deflt = 5.2; # add 'spam detected' headers at that level > > $sa_kill_level_deflt = 6.2; # triggers spam evasive actions (e.g. blocks > > mail) > That seems a little aggressive to me. Personally I'd prefer a larger > margin of error for FPs, and would set the discard level t

Re: Lowering spam threshold

2011-07-06 Thread Ned Slider
On 06/07/11 09:17, Lars Jørgensen wrote: I think many people run with tag at 5.0 and discard at 10.0 I should have mentioned that we are running amavisd-new. I thought that was the de facto way of integrating spamassassin into a mail gateway, but reading this list reveals that most people pro

RE: Lowering spam threshold

2011-07-06 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Lars Jørgensen wrote: $sa_tag2_level_deflt = 5.2; # add 'spam detected' headers at that level $sa_kill_level_deflt = 6.2; # triggers spam evasive actions (e.g. blocks mail) That seems a little aggressive to me. Personally I'd prefer a larger margin of error for FPs, and

Re: Lowering spam threshold

2011-07-06 Thread Michael Scheidell
On 7/6/11 4:17 AM, Lars Jørgensen wrote: I think many people run with tag at 5.0 and discard at 10.0 I should have mentioned that we are running amavisd-new. I thought that was the de facto way of integrating spamassassin into a mail gateway, but reading this list reveals that most people prob

RE: Lowering spam threshold

2011-07-06 Thread Lars Jørgensen
> I think many people run with tag at 5.0 and discard at 10.0 I should have mentioned that we are running amavisd-new. I thought that was the de facto way of integrating spamassassin into a mail gateway, but reading this list reveals that most people probably doesn't do that. Makes me wonder if

Re: Lowering spam threshold

2011-07-04 Thread Anthony Cartmell
The default spam threshold, and the one that all of the generated scores are targeted at, is 5.0 - you already seem to be running at an elevated score, so I wouldn't see any issues with dropping your tag score back to the default of 5.0 I think many people run with tag at 5.0 and discard at 10.0

Re: Lowering spam threshold

2011-07-04 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, Lars Jørgensen wrote: We still get quite a bit of spam through and instead of fiddling with scores, I was thinking about lowering the threshold. Currently tag is at 6.2 and kill at 6.9. Would it be unwise to lower these? What thresholds are other people on this list using?

Re: Lowering spam threshold

2011-07-04 Thread a . smith
Currently I have it at 4.8 Quoting Lars Jørgensen : Hi, We still get quite a bit of spam through and instead of fiddling with scores, I was thinking about lowering the threshold. Currently tag is at 6.2 and kill at 6.9. Would it be unwise to lower these? What thresholds are other people

Lowering spam threshold

2011-07-04 Thread Lars Jørgensen
Hi, We still get quite a bit of spam through and instead of fiddling with scores, I was thinking about lowering the threshold. Currently tag is at 6.2 and kill at 6.9. Would it be unwise to lower these? What thresholds are other people on this list using? -- Lars